pavel6
Well Oiled
Hello everyone: I've got lots of problems with our '65 wagon but she's in reasonable shape overall and runs OK. There is one problem that, I think, is the major reason I flunked AirCare. The distributor is stuck at 20 degrees BTDC! Amazingly, she starts beautifully and only wants to overheat if driven at 50+ mph (I do live in the Pacific NW where it rarely gets hot outside). I've tried almost everything to shift the dist but it won't move. This is the Tornado 230 engine so the dist sits in the front aluminum casting which can easily be cracked I'm sure. Here's what I've tried:
1 soak and resoak in PB Blaster for 3 years
2 using a strong strap wrench, tried to twist the casting back and forth
3 using a specially shaped piece of wood, tried to tap (pound) the underside of the dist casting from below whilest my helper (the poor Mrs.) kept twisting the dist from above
4 ran the engine until the block was hot and repeated steps 1-3 many times
No luck so far!
The next idea is to use a "hammer drill" with an aluminum rod and try to vibrate the unit loose from below... I am at the point of abandoning the distributor altogether and installing a (vastly superior) MegaJolt distributorless ignition system to get around this problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Pavel
1 soak and resoak in PB Blaster for 3 years
2 using a strong strap wrench, tried to twist the casting back and forth
3 using a specially shaped piece of wood, tried to tap (pound) the underside of the dist casting from below whilest my helper (the poor Mrs.) kept twisting the dist from above
4 ran the engine until the block was hot and repeated steps 1-3 many times
No luck so far!
The next idea is to use a "hammer drill" with an aluminum rod and try to vibrate the unit loose from below... I am at the point of abandoning the distributor altogether and installing a (vastly superior) MegaJolt distributorless ignition system to get around this problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Pavel